I was watching something else on the SciFi Channel (as it was called then) when I saw the promos for the Dresden Files.  I already liked Paul Blackthorne, so I started watching it and loved the series.  Unfortunate that they canceled it after one short season.  However, I noticed that the show as based on novels by Jim Butcher, so I ordered a few in paperback from amazon.com.  I've read every book to date.  I bought the two prior to the last one in hardback because I couldn't wait.  The last one I bought in Kindle Book format since I now own a Kindle.  I totally love Harry Dresden novels.  I've read all the short stories I can find as well and discovered some other authors in the process.

I know a lot of dyed-in-the-wool fans of the books didn't like the TV series because of changes they made in the ongoing story line.  I think the TV version worked very well for television, actually, with a slightly older Harry.  I didn't mind the hockey stick instead of a wizard's staff and the carved drumstick for a blasting rod at all, nor the Korean War-era jeep instead of the battered old VW Blue Beetle (which can't rightfully be called "blue" anymore).  When I started reading the books, I was just as enthusiastic to welcome Jim Butcher's original Harry Dresden and his world into my imagination.

Jim Butcher can certainly put a story together and he knows how to write.  I have a feeling that TV series is responsible for a goodly number of new fans of the books like me.  At least I hope so.  I'd love to think sales of his books went up significantly because of that TV series.  Jim deserves it.